(Or use "foo@bar.com" as the email to login with)
Open-Source Software
In Kearney, Mo., district IT director Keith Waller recently
established four new classroom labs for teaching with technology. Each
includes an interactive whiteboard, a teacher workstation, a teacher
laptop, and a student-to-computer ratio of 2 to 1. The computers in
two of the labs run on Microsoft's Windows operating system, while
those in the other two labs are powered by Linux, the open-source
software platform that is mounting a growing challenge to Microsoft's
dominance in the computing world.
Not only did the Linux-based labs cost half as much as the
Windows-based labs to equip--but system upkeep is much easier, too,
Waller maintains.
This article's 7 pages long. I haven't even started reading it yet,
but I've seen it mentioned a bunch in the K12/Linux communities.
http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStorysr.cfm?ArticleID=5662
Enjoy!
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-bill!
bill@newbreedsoftware.com
http://newbreedsoftware.com/
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